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The End Of Insurance Companies

Journal of Medicine - Here’s a bold prediction for the new year. By 2020, the American health insurance industry will be extinct. Insurance companies will be replaced by accountable care organizations — groups of doctors, hospitals and other health care providers who come together to provide the full range of medical care for patients.

Why Some Doctors Don't Like Their Jobs

Journal of Medicine - At a recent social gathering, a doctor friend who has been in private practice for almost 15 years revealed something that caused one physician to nearly choke on her drink, another to gasp in disbelief and the rest of us to stop what we were doing and gawk as if he had committed some grave social faux pas.

Survey: Physicians Fudge Bad Prognoses

Doctors Face Scrutiny Over Income

Journal of Medicine - The Obama administration is poised to enact regulations requiring that the manufacturers of drugs, medical devices and medical supplies disclose all payments they make to doctors or teaching hospitals. The information, which would be posted on a government Web site, will allow patients to see any "conflicts of interest".

Insurers Raise Out of Network Costs

Journal of Medicine - When Sharon Smith chose an out-of-network specialist to perform a complicated jaw surgery on her teenage son last May she knew it would cost her more. But she was not expecting $15,000.

Hospitals Mine Patient Records For New Customers

Journal of Medicine - When the oversized postcard arrived last August from Provena St. Joseph Medical Center promoting a lung cancer screening for current or former smokers over 55, Steven Boyd wondered how the hospital had found him.